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Moment of Inertia? Potential and Kinetic Energy? Anybody awake?

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Collision in two dimensions problems

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Potential of a non-uniform charged rod

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Determine Mass of object for no motion on ramp

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Finding Differential Equation for Circuit: Help Needed!

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Time for a ball on string to travel around a pole.

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Solve F=ma Concept: Urgent Help Needed! Where Did I Go Wrong?

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Calculating Electricity Consumption: From KWhr to kW and Units

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Solve Newtons' Laws Problems with Kinematics Equations for Homework

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Can a Rocket Reach the Sound Barrier Without Breaking Internal Equipment?

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Help with Kinetic Energy and Time

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How to calculate distance when there's a changing force?D:

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Why Do Different Sources Show Varying Electric Flux Equations?

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A strange kind of straight line kinematics with uniform acceleration.

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Constant Velocity Challenge Problem

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Finding a new speed after adding a friction force? Help

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Solving Box Motion with Applied Force

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Why does substitution F = ma in this problem not work?

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What is the velocity of a pendulum when impacted by another mass?

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How Does Hitting a Wall Affect Kinetic Energy?

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A rotating container injected with a liquid

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What are the equations for calculating equivalent resistance in a circuit?

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What is the Image Height for a Converging Lens and Diverging Lens System?

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Problem regarding refraction of light question

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Calculating the lifetime of a particle

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Max EMF in a Model AC Generator Coil

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Momentum of golf ball and basketball

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Work Required for Adiabatic Compression

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Mechanic about wood block, friction and pulley

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Mechanism that causes tension and normal force?

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Which Formulas Solve These Physics Problems?

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What Is the Angle Between Velocity Vector and Radius-Vector of Part A at 4RE?

  • assaftolko
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Please help with formulas for take home test due tomorrow.

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Weight Distribution: Solving for Tension in a Hawser System

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Need help on an object acceleration homework problem

  • Physicshw
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A sled is being pulled accross horizontal, snow covered ground

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Time and height in a freefall problem

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How Do You Solve Orbital Mechanics Problems Involving Central Forces?

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Forces of a wrecking ball against a wall at rest.

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Calculating Time Dilation at Half the Speed of Light

  • Naoki
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Finding kinetic energy after an elastic collision

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How Do You Solve a Modified Atwood Machine Problem?

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Find acceleration vector of a car travelling on a circular path

  • Phys121VIU
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Non-Uniform Distribution of Charge on a Rod

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Magnitude and angle of particle direction-

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Velocities and momentum after explosions

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Atoms of Julius Caesar in a Caesar Salad (seriously)

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Inelastic Collision: Threshold Energy

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Why Is My Calculated Velocity at the Swing's Apex Incorrect?

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How Far Will a Cart Roll on Sand and Gravel? | Work/Energy Question

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Conservative forces and Mechanical Energy

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Tension of strings at different angles:

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Pottery wheel, angular acceleration, and required speed

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Solving Power Equation: Melting an Ice Cube

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Kinetic and Potential Energy with acceleration

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How Does Centrifugal Force Compare to Gravity in Car Cornering Dynamics?

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Grade 11 Physics, Need resources

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Solve Kinematic Equations for Automobile Braking

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Determining Orbital Period of a Planet

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Kinematic Equations (Constant Acceleration)

  • Physics 134
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Given Maximum Acceleration calculate angle θ where Fnet=0

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Tension in of string between two boxes with friction.

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Calculating Work Done by Friction in a Circular Track

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Rank the velocities of the balls

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Calculate Change in Momentum of 4.8 kg Mass Launched at 55°

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I really appreciate the help.Finding Force in Nonuniform Circular Motion

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Two Blocks Connected by a Massless String Over a Pulley

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Find B given distance and direction from vector A

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Electrostatics questions, parallel plates, force, field

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LIL 5 year old boy falling a 50 feet to another persons arms

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Tension and ball of mass problem

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Solving Work Needed to Pull Chain On Frictionless Table

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Determining the speed of the bullet after a collision

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Calculating area of a parallelogram defined by 2 vectors

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Solving Plank Pivot Homework: Force Magnitude & Direction

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Explosion of firecracker on pond

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Thermodynamics/ideal gas question

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Conservation of angular momentum axis

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Torque on a current carrying coil with an applied frictional force?

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A ball being shot from level ground with a twist

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Calculating Current using Kirkoff's Rules

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Projectile Motion Help: Solving Cannon Ball Problems

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Solve Shear Force & Moment Equation Homework

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Pressure Gradient in Hydrostatic Equilibrium

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A pair of perpendicular vectors

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Trucks travels beneath an airplane .

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Out of 2 oscillators, which one decays to .1A first?

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Lenz's law for point charge in time varying magnetic field?

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A Person in Free Fall Newton's 2nd Law

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Finding Energy Given Mass and Height

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Elevator Tension With Upward Acceleration

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Proportional ratios with exponents - Need Help

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Collision with 3 particles and inelastic string

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How Does a Fly Impact the Speed of a Moving Car?

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Symbols in the equation relating work, force, and distance moved

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